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Researchers led by a team at the University of Illinois at Chicago, have identified a novel role for a signaling mechanism in lung cells that permanently places them into a state of suspended animation called senescence. Alive but unable to do much of anything, including divide, senescent cells cannot become cancerous. Drugs that can induce senescence through this signaling pathway would represent a new class of chemotherapy.

A University of Illinois at Chicago humanities scholar will lead a multi-site policy “lab” that links three Midwest universities in work that explores social and human issues related to water, energy and natural resources in the Great Lakes region.

Risk of recurrent stroke is higher in patients who have low blood flow to the back of the brain, a six-year, multi-center trial has found, and the condition can be visualized using specialized software developed at the University of Illinois at Chicago that analyzes blood flow using standard MRI.

The Chicago Biomedical Consortium (CBC) has announced a $3 million infrastructure initiative to fund the purchase of high-impact, next-generation scientific equipment by its member universities, including the University of Illinois at Chicago.

OVCR Announcements

The Office for the Protection of Research Subjects (OPRS) is pleased to inform the campus that Electronic Submission of research protocols for UIC IRB review will soon be a reality. The OVCR IT Team, as part of the Start myResearch project, has been working on a system enabling Investigators to finally go paperless. OPRS Live will soon be available to the campus. OPRS will provide additional information on the exact roll out dates when they become available.

The University defines capital equipment as items with a unit value of $5000 or more and having a useful life of over one year, which is consistent with Federal and State equipment definitions and regulations. However, the practice of UIC has been to categorize anything costing $500 or more as equipment for the purpose of proposal budgets to external agencies.

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Rosemary White-Traut, PhD, RN, FAAN

Professor and Head, Women, Child, and Family Health Science

Rosemary White-Traut, PhD, RN, FAAN, professor and head, Women, Child, and Family Health Science, helps a mother care for her newborn. Dr. White-Traut is known for her research on developmental intervention for infants. The intervention, known as the ATVV intervention, provides auditory stimuli via the female human voice; tactile stimuli via moderate touch stroking; visual stimuli in the form of eye-to-eye contact; and vestibular stimuli, such as rocking.